Channel 4 Northern Talent Network: Script Hubs
In partnership with Channel 4, our Script Hubs provide peer support and networking to writers across the North looking to take their career in TV forward.
Over a five-month period, ten writers in each Script Hub collaborate on a series of peer group sessions and professional development workshops. Each group is led by an experienced facilitator writer, with the workshops featuring guest writers, producers, and other broadcast professionals.
Places are selected via application. Applicants should have some experience writing scripts or be practising in another form, such as fiction or poetry, but do not need to have a commission.
Once the facilitated sessions and workshops are complete, the aim is that the groups will continue to meet as self-directed peer groups, maintaining a continuing relationship with New Writing North.
Current opportunities
Cumbria Script Hub
Applications open from 11 August–3 October 2025 (deadline extended), sessions begin in October 2025 at a venue in Cumbria.
Open to all writers living in Cumbria who are looking to take their career in TV forward.
Global Majority Writers Script Hub (online)
Applications open from 11 August–9 September 2025, sessions begin in October 2025 online.
Open to writers across the North of England who are members of the global majority and looking to take their career in TV forward.
‘Global majority’ refers to all ethnic groups except white British and other white groups, including white minorities. It includes people from black, Asian, mixed, and other ethnic groups who are often racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’. (NCVO)
Other Script Hubs
- Online Script Hub, led by Middlesbrough writer and filmmaker James Harris, funded by North East Combined Authority.
- Newcastle Script Hub, led by Geordie writer/performer Chess Tomlinson, funded by North East Combined Authority
- Bradford Script Hub, led by Bradford-based writer and director Jordon Scott Kennedy, in partnership with The Unit.
